Re: Recommended Firewalls
How about 'Firestarter' if using something Gui based is not a problem
for you. It's simple and efficient for a single machine and sort of
reminds me of early ZoneAlarm back in the Win98 days (but without the
yellow!).
Good enough for a home computer if you are not running a server or have
more complex needs.
I'm running it behind a NAT router/firewall but it's probably good
enough as a stand alone software firewall.
B.Hoffmann
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 23:47 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> That looks easier, when I tried it was a few years ago and I had to use a
> port something in the 10,000's range to talk to it. That was on redhat
> too before I found out how to install debian.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... Webmin is pretty easy to setup :-)
> >
> > Should be as easy as:
> > [root@yourhost /tmp]# gunzip webmin-1.260.tar.gz
> > [root@yourhost /tmp]# tar xf webmin-1.260.tar
> > [root@yourhost /tmp]# cd webmin-1.260
> > [root@yourhost /tmp/webmin-1.260]# ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin
> >
> > And you don't need any java!
> >
> > I've tried using the apt packages for webmin but someone has made it so
> > that there is one base package for an almost empty webmin and you can
> > install modules seperately. It must have been some effort seperating all
> > the components...
> > But I'm affraid that it has not been very helpfull for me, a lot of
> > package fuss for nothing if you ask me, :-) So just go with the source if
> > you want to keep it simple. It's worth the effort! Webmin is very helpfull
> > for almost every linux user...
> >
> >> I had tried setting up webmine in the past and couldn't get the setup
> >> working completely. I think that may have been because I wasn't using a
> >> java browser to talk to it then. Thanks much for these firewall
> >> suggestions.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Bart van den Heuvel wrote:
> >>
> >>> You can try Shorewall, that's console based and if you've setup webmin
> >>> you
> >>> can also manage it using a webinterface.
> >>>
> >>> If you are more in to colors you can have fwbuilder... It's a gui based
> >>> firewall configurator that compiles shellscripts that setup iptables.
> >>> Nice thing about fwbuilder is that you manage multiple fw's remotely,
> >>> even
> >>> from windows machines. Using ssh it copies over the script and applies
> >>> it
> >>> to a firewall. The interface is very checkpoint like.
> >>>
> >>> All these are iptables based... Check it out@
> >>>
> >>> http://www.shorewall.net
> >>> http://www.webmin.com (this has it's own iptables mangler also!)
> >>> http://www.fwbuilder.org
> >>>
> >>> If you need something that gives you most control on the console on the
> >>> actual firewall in case of an emergency i would go for shorewall as
> >>> everything is local. But i mainly use fwbuilder, if i get in trouble i
> >>> just iptables --flush or have a vanilla fw script (made with fwbuilder)
> >>> ready.
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Bart
> >>>
> >>>> So what happens if you can use debian but can't use any G.U.I. since
> >>>> none
> >>>> of the G.U.I. will talk yet? Is there a console equivalent for
> >>>> guardog?
> >>>> I'm totally blind and when I use a debian equipped computer I do it
> >>>> alone.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Clyde Wilson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Thanks Chris, great tip! I'll give it a try.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --- Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Clyde Wilson wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I'm on Debian Sarge 3.1 r 1. Can anyone recommend
> >>>>>> an easy but fairly
> >>>>>>> good firewall?
> >>>>>>> Thanks for your time!
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If you are talking about a personal firewall for
> >>>>>> your PC, have alook at
> >>>>>> Guarddog. It configures IPtables, so you only need
> >>>>>> to run it to
> >>>>>> configure or reconfigure the firewall. Its a KDE
> >>>>>> program, but runs in
> >>>>>> Gnome with no problems. Its also easy. Have a look
> >>>>>> at
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Setting_up_a_personal_firewall_on_Debian_using_Guarddog
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Chris.
>
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